Tokyo has lodged a protest with the Chinese Foreign Ministry for barring a reporter with the conservative Sankei Shimbun daily from participating in pool coverage of a high-ranking bilateral meeting in Beijing, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry¡¯s exclusion of the reporter from the Sankei, which is often critical of China, is ¡°extremely regrettable,¡± and runs counter to Tokyo¡¯s stance that ¡°basic human rights, including freedom of expression, and the rule of law are universal values shared by the international community,¡± Suga said.
¡°Those values must be guaranteed in any country,¡± he added.
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